NPM, the Node Package Manager, is part of the standard Node.js installation, although it has its own website. The JavaScript-based Node.js platform was introduced by Ryan Dahl in 2009.

The libraries are built in C and Zig, and it explicitly avoids any Node or NPM dependencies, thereby minimizing JavaScript in its stack. These decisions are all in service of maximizing performance.

The NPM JavaScript registry has experienced a jump in malware, including packages related to data theft, crypto mining, botnets, and remote code execution, according to security company WhiteSource.

Two code packages named "nodejs-encrypt-agent" in the popular npm JavaScript library and registry recently were discovered containing the open source information-stealing TurkoRat malware ...

Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the ...